SB2012091406 - Input validation error in tor.eff Tor
Published: September 14, 2012 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012091406
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-4922)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The tor_timegm function in common/util.c in Tor before 0.2.2.39, and 0.2.3.x before 0.2.3.22-rc, does not properly validate time values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed directory object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4419.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00005.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/12/5
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-03.xml
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/release-0.2.2:/ReleaseNotes
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/973c18bf0e84d14d8006a9ae97fde7f7fb97e404
- https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-September/025501.html
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6811